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Calista241

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8. That was one of the excuses he used.

Reply to cannabis_flower (Reply #6)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 09:14 PM

Dec 2015

They also said you could be bitten, spit on, knocked over, etc. One of the defense witnesses said something like "even the most docile of detainees can turn on you in an instant. It only takes getting bitten once, before you take precautions against everyone," or something like that.

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